Manifolding apparatus.



0. LOBWEBUSACH.V MANIPOLDING APPARATUS.

APPLICATION FILED JULY 24,1907.

Patented sept.14,19o9. -Z-/Yvljv 1 I 2 SHEETS-SHEET 1.

QG/Wewed 0. LOEWENBACH.

MANIFOLDING APPARATUS.

APPLICATION FILED JULY 24, 1907.

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Patented Sept. 14, 1909.

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OSCAR LOEWENBACH,

OF MILWAUKEE, WISCONSIN, ASSIGNOR TO B. L SON, OF MILWAUKEE, WISCONSIN, A FIRM.

MANIFLDING APPARATUS.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Sept. 14, 1909.

Appncation inea July 24, 1907. serial No. 385,393.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, OSCAR LOEWENBACH, a citizen of the United States, and resident of Milwaukee, in the county lof `Milwaukee and State of 1Wisconsin, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Manifolding Apparatus; and I do hereby declare that the following is a full, clear, and exact description thereof.

The improvements consist in what is herein shown, described and claimed; vthe object of the invention being to provide simple economical apparatus designed to facilitate recording of accounts or other writings in whole or part. i

Figure l of the accompanying drawings represents a plan view of apparatus in accordance with my invention partly inv horizontal section and contracted, but which illustrates the general construction and arrangement of parts of same; Fig. 2, a side elevation of the apparatus partly in section,

this view being indicated by lines 2-2 in Fig. l; Fig. 3, a partly sectional side elevation on an enlarged scale of a fragmentof the apparatus; Fig. 4, a plan view of another fragment of the apparatus also on air enlarged scale; Fig. 5, a sectional view of a fragment of the apparatus likewise on an enlarged scale, this view being indicated by line55in Fig. 1, and Fig. (i, a pers ective view of said apparatus in its preferre form,

its application with reference to original and record sheets being illustrated.

Referring by letter to the drawings, A indicates a portable base provided with preferably hushed holes in `series parallel to its adjacent longitudinal edges.` Pins b are set in selected holes in the-base to engage with binder-post holes of a loose-leaf ledger-leaf B, this leaf being held by one or the other sets of pins according to the side to be operated upon. Adjacent to its upper edge, the basel is rovided with brackets c that serve as bearings for end-j ournals of a transverse. rod .C having arms l fast thereon adjacent to said bearings. In pivotal connection with ysaid arms are ends of parallel guide-rods l) connected by posts c with a rectangular frame E, and sleeves F have play on said guide-rods between supporting posts of same.l These sleeves are provided with ears 7', and the ends of a transverse guide rod Gr are held fast in said ears by means of nuts g or otherwise as may be most convenient in practice, said sleeves and rod in connection therewith constituting what is hereinafter termed a carriage. Y

The rod G of the carriage is longitudinally grooved, the width of the groove Iz. approximating one-third of the circumference ofA said rod. Guided on this rod is a loose sleeve H having end-plates z' extending in opposite directions therefrom, and radial stop-lugs of the plates engage the groove of the rod to limit swing of the sleeve and parts in connection therewith. Parallel links lc, in pairs, connect the extremities of the end-plates of the sleeve H with the sides of a consecutive numbering stamp `I of ordinary construction a duplicator stamp .being preferably employed. This stamp 4is held in normal lifted position by springs m connecting ears of the endplates i of the sleeve I-I with links lo, said stamp being moved down- `ward `against resistance of the springs by which it is automatically returned to said normal position on being relieved of pressure, the movement of said stamp in working position being on a vertical plane. Because of the engagement of the lugs y' of the end-plates z' of the sleeve H with the groove of the carriage-rod G, the numbering stamp I may be swung, up out of the way as shown by dotted lines in Fig. 2. Another loose sleeve J is guided on the carriage-rod G, and provided with a set-screw a by which it may be fastened in adjusted position. Itiveted or otherwiseA rigidly secured to a depending lug o of the sleeve J is a right angle gage-plate K both arms of which are vertically flanged and soldered orotherwise rigidly secured on a preferably trolled edge of a flange of said plate is a spring-controlled paper-clip L, a lever portion of same being extended, over an adjacent guide-rod D for the carriage aforesaid. A bill M or other writing sheet and an underlying sheet of carbon-paper N are held by the clip and the gage-plate over the aforesaid ledger-leaf or other record sheet under the frame E, andin order to obtain clearance for the placing or removal of said record-sheet, said frame is swung up on the pivots connecting the guide-rods D with the arms al of the rod C, it being held in elevated position by a swing-hook O that is loose on said rod and engageable with the rod Gr of the carriage at any ,convenient point of same.'

In practice, the record-sheet B is posioEwENBA/CH a bill or other Writing sheet M and sheet-oi' carbon-paper areclipped on the gage-plate Ii and the carriage and said gage-plate adjusted With reference to that portionoi' said 'record-sheet upon which said Writing or a portion of the same is to be duplicated. The Writingior any portion of same is then gone over with a stylus and thus duplicated'on the record-sheet, or. the Writing may be done at this time on the uppermost sheet. Extra copies of the Writing may behad by employing more record/and carbon-paper sheets as is customary in manifolding operations, and the billing or other Writing may be done direct upon the superimposed writing-sheet. The serial numbei` of the bill or other writf ing is had by impacting the numbering stamp I before or after the manifolding operation and if'the'carbon-paper is not sufficiently sensitive, said stamp may be set to repeat a number one or more times and impacted on the original and copies separately.

'If the recordin is to be done in a book or upon a pile oi; record sheets the aforesaid rocker permits of an elevation of the frame Eand parts therewith to overlie a leaf of said book, and it is to be understood that said .frame may be detached from said rocker should it be desirable to perform record operations upon loose leaves or in a book on a supportV other than the base A aforesaid.

I claim: l

l. A manifolding apparatus comprising a frame, parallel guides supported on the frame, a carriage adjustable onthe guides,v

a gage-plate suspended j j from av'tran'sverse member of the carriage,

and. means lin connection With the gage-plate for holding an..y original Writing sheet, carbon-paper and recj' .ord sheet on said plate. g f

2. A manifolding apparatus comprising a frame, parallel guides supported on the frame, a carriage adjustable on the guides, a` gage-plate on -the carriage adjustable transversely to the guides, and lmeans in con- -nectionvwith the plate for holding sheets of y paper on 'said plate.

3.' A manifolding apparatus comprising a frame, parallel horizontal guides supported `on the frame, a carriage adjustable on the guides, a right-angle gage-plate suspended from a transverse member of the carriage,

4. A manifolding apparatuscomprising a frame, parallel guides ,supported on the frame, a carriage adjustable on the guic'los, a gage-plate and numbering stamp in connection With a member of the frame, and means in connection With the gage-plate for holding an original Writing sheet, carbon paper and record sheet on said plate under' said stamp.

5. A manifolding apparatus comprising a base, an oscillative member having arms and mounted on the base, a frame in pivotal connection With said arms, parallel guides supported on the frame, and a paper-holder carriage adj ustableon the guides.

6. A m'anifolding apparatus comprising a base provided With holes'in series parallel to an edge of same, pins engageable with the holes to be engaged by binder-post holes of a record-sheet,` an oscillative member having armsand mounted onthe. base, a frame in pivotal connection With said arms, parallel guides supported on the frame, and a paper holder carriage adjustable on the guides.

7. A manifolding apparatus comprising a base, an oscillative member having arms andmounted onthe base, a frame in pivotal connection With vsaid arms, parallel guides supported on the ltrame7 a paper-holder carriage 'adjustable on the guides, and a hook hung on said oscillative member for engagement with said carriage When said frame and parts therewith are swung up out of the Way. v

8. A manifolding apparatus comprising a i'rame` parallel' guides supported .on the frame, a carriage adjustable on the guides,

a gage-plate suspended from a* transverse kmember of the carriage, and meansm connection "With the gages plate for holding sheets of paper on said plate. v

In testimony that I claim the foregoing I have hereunto Set my hand at Milwaukee in the county of Milwaukee and State of Wisconsin inthe presence of tWoWitnesses.

osoAa LoEWnNBAoaf Witnesses: y

N. E. OLIPHANT, GEORGE FELBER. 

